Side Beach

Side

by Minerva

"Relaxed and sunny"

My friend and me needed some sun and relaxed days, and went to Turkey for 14 days. We had a great time and it was relaxed and sunny. We spent most of the days at the beach and did not see much of Turkey except Side.

Side is situated on a peninsula about 1000 m long and 400 m. wide; it fulfilled its duty as a commercial port. Naturally, Side used to be one of the most important trade centres in the antiquity and now it is one of the most popular holiday resorts in Turkey.
The wall of Antique Side surrounds the city all around the peninsula. The length of the walls with the inner ones is about 6 km. The width of the walls on the seaside is nearly 3 m some points. The height reaches 10 m.

The two temples which were built next to each other within a Peripteros plan were situated in the Southern end of the peninsula Side. The one in the East belonged to Apollon and the one in the west to Athena.